Bradley Manning, the former US army intelligence analyst convicted
last month of espionage for leaking 700,000 secret government documents
to WikiLeaks in 2010, apologised yesterday for hurting his country.

Manning, 25, who faces up to 90 years in prison, took the witness stand at a
military sentencing hearing. “I’m sorry I hurt people. I’m sorry that I hurt
the United States,” he said.

It was the first time he had spoken publicly since February, when he read a
10,000-word statement at a hearing leading up to his court martial.